The Clifton clarion., 1887-09-14
Lordsburg CorrespOndenee.


 Shorty, the fellow who robbed the till of Frank Schutz, was tried for the offense and convicted. He was sentenced to the county jail for ninety days.
 Cattle are being rounded up in the San Simon and Animas val leys.
 Traffic on the Southern Pacific Railroad is temporarily suspend ed. Steamers specials, which carry through freight from New Orleans to San Francisco, which had been side-tracked on account of washouts between Deming and Wilcox, are ordered back to Dem ing, from whence the Santa Fe company transports them through by the way of Albuquerque on the Atlantic and Pacific Railway. An accommodation train will be run daily between Fl Paso and Wilcox during the washout season. It is estimated that it will take thirty days to repair the grade.
 It is reported in railroad circles that five miles of the grade be- tween Papago and Pantano has washed out; also 2000 feet at Ben son and a big fill west of Ochoa.
 Mrs. Lav. Thompson of the Anlmas valley is reported as very sick.
 Col. McWhirt and family re- turned last Friday from the Chiricahuas. He reports cattle do- ing well and crops looking fine in that section.
 Miss Frankie Burdick, who seems to be a great favorite with the boys in eastern Arizona and this part of New Mexico. passed through here on her way to Cliff ton.
 Colonel J. T. Fitzgerald, Pro bate Judge of Graham county. and the handsome Mike Leahy of Fort Thomas, Ariz., were in town last week.
 The eventful shadows that mark coming events are assuming tangi- ble shape, so far as Shakespeare is concerned. Prepare to hear of a boom.
 The Eagle Drugstore, Harry Smalls', in the way of fixtures and appointments, will be the best finished of any business house in Grant county when completed. He has just received a set of shelv- ing of the cabinet model manu- factured by Buchanan & Co. of Fl Paso, Tex, out of California redwood. The compartments for medicine jars are enclosed with sliding glass doors; and for fancy toilet articles are closets with hanging glass gates, where ordinarily the baseboard of shelves are fixed. beneath which are lockers intended to protect goods not exhibited as samples. The ceiling is to be painted with silver paint and the moulding that covers the ceiling joint next to the wall will be gold gifted, which will make the ceiling have the appear ance of sheet of silver i'll q frame of gold. MT. Small is one of Lordsburg's business men who has attained commercial standing from small beginnings, through attentive and economical manage ment. He believes in the future of Lordsburg and will sink or swim with its destiny.
 What might have been called another frightful railroad horror came near taking place last Fri day night through the collision of trains Nos. 19 and 22 at Lisbon siding, which is about ten miles east of here on the Southern Paci- ic Railroad. The trains were ordered to meet and pass each other at that place. Twenty-two arrived first and was moving slow ly on the side track when I9 came laundering along at speed of at least 40 miles an hour; and before the engineer of 19, Fred Littlefeld, noticed that p had not got entire ly side-tracked, crashed into car which was on the side track, but within striking distance from the main line. The side and corner was cut clean off this car, and the next car, which was loaded with four, was hit at tue corner and | completely cut in two in a diagonal | The next car was load | ed with IS mules and must have |